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BALTIMORE, Md. – Immaculata softball punched its ticket to its eighth-straight appearance in the conference postseason tournament on Friday as the Mighty Macs swept Notre Dame of Maryland, 13-2 and 12-1. Immaculata improved to 15-19 overall and 13-7 in the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) with the pair of wins.
 
Melissa Ejk was 4-for-7 with three RBIs and three runs scored, while Paige Hughes and Kelsey Collevechio were both 4-for-8. Hughes had three RBIs and two runs scored, and Collevechio scored five runs while driving in one. In all, 11 different Mighty Macs had at least one hit during the two games as Immaculata had 28 hits as a team.
 
Immaculata scored four runs in the first inning of the opener before opening the game wide open in the second inning with nine runs.
 
Collevechio singled and scored on Ejk's single. Annemarie Bartow walked, and Meghan Kugler singled to score Ejk for a 2-0 Mighty Macs lead with two outs. Hughes then reached on an error that allowed more two runs to score in the first inning.
 
Immaculata had five hits during the second inning and Notre Dame committed five errors. All nine of the Mighty Macs runs during the inning were unearned. Jessica Bormann reached on bunt that scored Lauren Penn for the first run of the inning. Kugler made it 9-1 in favor of Immaculata when two runs scored on her double, and Kugler then touched home plate on Hughes' single.
 
Collevechio singled to score Hughes, and Ejk capped the inning with a two-RBI single that scored Penn and Collevechio.
 
After a lead-off home run in the first for the Gators, the Mighty Macs did not allow another Notre Dame hit until the fourth inning. The first hitter of the inning singled and she later scored for the 13-2 final.
 
Caitlin Brasier started the game and earned the win after pitching three innings. Brasier gave up one hit and one runs while striking out two and walking two. Kugler pitched the final two innings with one hit, one unearned run, two strikeouts and one walk.
 
In the nightcap, it was the Gators that got on the scoreboard first with their only run of the contest in the first inning on a solo home run.
 
Immaculata the scored in each of the next four innings, starting with two runs in the second and third. The Mighty Macs sealed up the five-inning win with four runs in each the fourth and fifth innings.
 
Brasier tripled into right center in the fourth inning clearing the bases for the Mighty Macs to give them an 8-1 lead.
 
Bartow hit a three-run homer in the fifth to score the final three runs of the game for the Mighty Macs.
 
Bormann went all five innings in the circle. She allowed four hits, one run, and struck out four.
 
Immaculata plays its final regular-season contest tomorrow as it hosts Gwynedd Mercy at 1 p.m. at the IU Softball Field. The Mighty Macs will honor their two seniors before the games.